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The proposal from a meeting of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) last Wednesday for a task force to help business and investment couldn't have been timelier. It...
The death toll from days of violent demonstrations across Iraq surged to 46 on Friday, most of them killed in the last 24 hours as unrest rapidly accelerated and the...
Frozen shrimp export companies have been playing a significant role in the economy as a foreign currency earner. It is also playing a leading role in marketing of Bangladeshi products...
South Asia must emerge as a connected, friendly and competitive region always ready to build bridges with other regions, said Sheikh Hasina. “In the past decades, we’ve seen many lofty...
There is a general perception that the existing income tax regulations in Bangladesh are British in origin -- intricate in nature and cumbersome for enforcement. Though taxation as an influential...
Nation branding (NB) as a concept has received considerable attention in today's competitive global marketing milieu. It aims to measure, build and manage the reputation of countries. A positive and...
World Teachers day is a special day celebrated through out the world on October 05 to express respect, honour and love towards teachers. It is also known as International Teachers...
The interested investors can start setting up industrial units in Jamalpur Economic Zone (JEZ) as all development works have almost been completed. “Land development works will be completed within a...
Members of preventive team of the Dhaka Customs House arrested a person with 73 sets of iPhone from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the city on Thursday. The arrestee...
No buses left the district for Gopalganj, Barishal, and Madaripur since Friday morning as the Rupsa-Bagerhat Bus Minibus Owners’ Association started enforcing an indefinite strike. Thousands of passengers are suffing...
The day is bright and a sense of nomadic urge lingers on. However, we realise that this is our last day at Kanyakumari and from here we will only be...
Rashida lives in Debigonj, an upazila in Panchagarh, a district far away from Dhaka. Her only daughter works in Dhaka and sends money to her mother regularly for her smooth...
World Teachers' Day is being observed globally today with the theme this year being: `Young Teachers: The Future of the Profession'. Every year UNESCO fixes a theme for the day...
A consignment of around 1,500 metric tonnes of onion loaded in 60 trucks under LCs opened before the existing ban started entering Bangladesh on Friday. Sanjit Kumar Majumder, secretary of...
A Sri Lankan court on Friday dismissed a legal case challenging presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Sri Lankan citizenship, removing a major barrier he faced in contesting the Novenber 16 poll....
The UN General Assembly’s (UNGA) high-level side event on “Social Business, Youth and Technology” was held at the United Nations Head Quarters, New York on September 26th 2019 aiming to...
The Premier Bank 5th International Education Expo 2019 has begun in the city in a bid to provide students with information about study abroad opportunities and programmes. The two-day event,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged India to inform Bangladesh before taking any decision to stop export of essential commodities, like onion, in future. “Suddenly, you (India) stopped the export...
A total of 326 people were hospitalised across the country with dengue in the last 24 hours till 8:00am on Friday. Among them, 78 were admitted to hospitals in the...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has prioritised five issues to sustain Bangladesh’s economic growth and ease transformation to higher middle income country from the present position. “There needs to be...
Satyapriya Mohathero, one of the foremost Buddhist leaders in Bangladesh and the principal of Buddhists temples in Ramu, has died at the age of 89. According to bdnews24.com, he passed...
The government of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Friday established an anti-mask law in the latest drive to end the prolonged violence. HKSAR Chief Executive Carrie Lam...
A consignment of around 1,500 metric tonnes of onion loaded in 60 trucks under letters of credit (LCs) opened before India's export ban started entering Bangladesh on Friday. Sanjit Kumar...
Police in a drive arrested a member of ‘organ trading’ syndicate from Telihar village in Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha district on Thursday night. The arrestee was identified as Rahim Uddin,...
Some 130 Bangladeshi workers were sent back home from Saudi Arabia on Thursday night amid a crackdown on undocumented workers. A flight of Saudi Airlines carrying the workers landed at...
Total handling capacity of China's ports saw year-on-year increases both in August and the first eight months of 2019, official data showed. China's ports in August handled 1.199 billion tonnes...
Railway communications on the Sylhet-Chattogram route have resumed after a four-hour disruption due to the derailment of a train in Brahmanbaria's Akhaura Upazila. A Chattogram-bound Jalalabad Express from Sylhet went...
US job growth likely picked up in September, with wages increasing solidly, which could assuage financial market concerns that the slowing economy was teetering on the brink of a recession...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged big Indian investors to set up industries in Bangladesh and export the products, to be produced in those industries, to vast markets in India...
Top fugitive criminal Zeesan Ahmed, wanted by DMP in murder and explosives cases, has been arrested in the UAE. Zeesan, who is on the Interpol's red notice list, was apprehended...
Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, began on Friday with the incarnation (Bodhon) of the Goddess Durga at temples across the country. The five-day festival will...
Thieves stole some of Mahatma Gandhi's remains on what would have been his 150th birthday, police said on Thursday. The ashes were taken from a memorial in central India on...
India is among the world’s most protectionist countries but the United States is trying to negotiate a limited trade deal with the South Asian nation to resolve their differences, US...
President Donald Trump on Thursday again invited foreign interference in a US presidential election by publicly calling on China to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden, the kind of request...
Syed Manzur Elahi, chairman of Apex Group, has been nominated for 'Lifetime Achievement Award' of the UK-Bangladesh Catalysts of Commerce and Industry (UKBCCI). The prominent business personality got the laurels...
Train communications on Chattogram-Sylhet route remained suspended since Friday morning following the derailment of a bogie at Akhaura Rail Station in Brahmanbaria district. Setafur Rahman, sub-inspector of Akhaura Railway Police...
The government's revenue earnings from the Dhaka bourse slumped 25 per cent year-on-year in first quarter (Q1) of the fiscal year (FY) 2019-20 as trading volume was on the decline....
Ten most traded companies grabbed one-fourth transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Thursday, with the National Tubes generating the highest turnover. Market insiders said investors were active on...
Imported low-quality solar panels and components have flooded the domestic market, causing concern among the relevant government agencies. According to market insiders and government officials, a sizeable volume of such...
The Directorate of Immigration and Passport has cancelled passports of five Bangladeshis, now staying in Brunei, for their involvement in visa trading, human trafficking and exploitation of workers. The Ministry...
Value addition of the country's ready-made garment (RMG) sector stood at 64.33 per cent in last fiscal year (FY), 2018-19, according to official data. Value addition of the sector remained...
The Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) has proposed Bangladesh to directly supply diesel to Parbatipur oil depot in Dinajpur to facilitate fuel transportation. It intends to carry diesel to Parbatipur...
Flood situation deteriorated further in Natore, Chapainawabganj and Pabna districts on Thursday, as water in the Padma river and its branches continued to swell. The surge continued, as upstream water...
The growth of liquidity in the country's banking system is positively linked with the change in foreign credit flow, according to a study conducted by some researchers of the Bangladesh...
Prices of onion, hilsa and vegetables marked a sharp rise this week, adding to the woes of low-income groups. Of them, onion prices swung wildly after neighbouring India imposed a...
The exchange rate of Bangladesh Taka depreciated significantly against the US dollar on Thursday, accelerated by the higher demand for the greenback to settle import bills. The local currency lost...
The securities regulator plans to contain the unusual price hike in the shares of listed companies in initial trading sessions, even in debut trading. The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission...
Weed in the crop field is a real hazard that reduces the yield of food nay all crops per hectare. Crop field's weed competes with crops for light, nutrients and...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has asked the banks to provide information on Jubo League Chairman Omar Faruk Chowdhury’s accounts as several leaders of the organisations have been named in the investigations...
The Financial Express early last month broke the news that Sanofi, a leading multinational pharmaceutical company, would close its Bangladesh operations soon. The company, reportedly, has already informed the government,...
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